Singaporeans were transfixed by news about the health of the country's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, leaving flowers and tributes at the hospital where he is being treated, as the government said today his condition had weakened further.

The health condition of Singapore's first prime minister and the man widely credited with the city-state's economic success, Lee Kuan Yew, has improved slightly though he remains on mechanical ventilation, the prime minister's office said today.

Ailing Kannada actor-turned-politician M.H. Ambareesh, who has been undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bangalore for breathing-related problems for over a week, may be shifted to Singapore on Saturday for further treatment.

A Delhi court on Saturday allowed the accused in the December 16 gang-rape case to bring two more witnesses in their defence and fixed August 22 for the start of hearing of the final arguments in the case.

Early in January, just days after the medical student they were accused of raping died in a Singapore hospital, the five men in Tihar Jail accused of raping and murdering her appeared to be depressed and were out on "suicide watch," jail officials had said.

Three doctors from Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where the 23-year-old medical student gang-raped in a Delhi bus in December died of her injuries, will depose in the case, beginning this afternoon.